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pcrimport2: Simple qPCR data import function (i.e. from text files or clipboard)

Description

Simple wrapper function to easily import qPCR data from the clipboard (default) or tab-delimited text files. In contrast to pcrimport, this function has no enhanced formatting features, but is quick and easy to use on data that has been pre-formatted, i.e. as in dataset reps ('Cycles' in the first column, all remaining columns with sensible names.

Usage

pcrimport2(file = "clipboard", sep = "", header = TRUE, quote = "",
          dec = ".", colClasses = "numeric", ...)

file{the name of the file which the data are to be read from (full path).}
  sep{the field separator character.}
  header{a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.}
  quote{the set of quoting characters.}
  dec{the character used in the file to denote decimal points.}
  colClasses{character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns.} 
  ...{further arguments to be passed on to read.table.}


For a more detailed description of the arguments see read.table.


A data frame containing a representation of the data in the file.

This function is the former pcrimport from packages 1.3-3 downward.
See pcrimport for an enhanced version offering formatting in the presence of reference dyes, columns/rows deletion,
 transforming from wide to long format, and automatic batch analysis.

[object Object]

## paste some Excel data into the clipboard ###
temp <- pcrimport2()
## from a tab-delimited text file ###
temp <- pcrimport2("c:\temp\foo.txt")

IO
file

Arguments